United Nations demands Iran to remove jammers

The telecommuting UN agency notes that the disturbances which the Iranian authorities put in the international satellite broadcasting are forbidden, so the authoritative world-wide institute claims the Islamic republic to end the interfering of the broadcasting.
Telecommunication company MTS arraigned the Iranian authorities in a deliberate making of disruptions, pointing that their chanell is situated clearly in Iran.
MTS company arraigned the Iran on account of a complaint from the Eutelstat satellite-based service provider. Lately Eutelstat made two complaints that "Iran consciously uses interferences which block the BBC broadcasting programs.
The European Union also critisezed the use of disruptions and censorship on world wide web by the Iranian governmet.

New GPS gadget

Mobile Mark (Illinois, USA) proposes a decision for those who do not like to show the usage of GPS devices in the automobiles. The firm made an antenna, contained within the car’s numberplate. Thus, they managed to supply a quality signal processing and also they took into account the interests of those who want to use this device secretly. Also, this antenna will be useful for those who like to combine various antennas of a number of various wireless equipments.
This plastic box of the antenna near the truck’s numberplate is not various on the surface from the general box, but within such an equipment is full of few antennas, which allow to fix up the simultaneous functioning of GPS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and telephone communicaton devices. The box with antennas can be established into the autos and trucks.
Those antennas hold GPS, cellular and Wi-Fi modules.
Characteristics of these antennas:
GPS: 5 dBi;
Frequencies (850 and 1900 MHz): 2,5 dBi;
Wi-Fi (2,4 and 5 GHz): 2,5 dBi.
Also the organization consider the development of such devices with a television antenna.

The prison department started the testing of new jammers

The prison department started the checking of the secret equipments, which should disable the mobile phones of the jailers. If the engineers have success, the jails can’t use the cell phone network, while other mobile phone users won’t be affected.
One of the troubles in jails is an illegal usage of cell phones. It is known that the prisoners are forbidden in having a mobile. At the same time, the prisoners keep using them, although 1000’s of mobile phones are taken from the convicts each year. There were even chances when the jailers tried to call the Russian Government via cell phones. Just lately, one prisoner called the members of the Security Committee, and asked them to examine his complaint more detailed.
The leader of prison authorities specified that that situation is not actually the engineering one but the problem with laws and regulations, so such cases start from time to time. As the FSIN leader highlighted, an immediate stern warning began from the special departments, which are responsible for the broadcasting when the so-called mobile blockers were used in some colonies. The superiors were threatened with the administrative responsibility for cutting the mobile phone waves.
It is problematic to make use of such devices in the big cities, because the normal people suffer bad broadcasting. There were some tries to establish the suitable gadget in the jails some years ago, but it led to a public scandal, because the cell phones finished operating not only in the jails, but also in the neighboring districts.
Other device is checked in Vladimir. According to the engineers, it doesn't break the telephone communication, but it discloses the mobiles even if those phones are turned off. So the mobile phones can no longer be kept away. If this gadget is successful, all jails will be supplied with those gadgets.

GPS jammers illegality

In connection with the consolidation of GPS positions due to expanding the scope of its application, recently the U. S. Security services set the goal of combating with the proliferation of GPS jammers (devices that interrupt the work of GPS-receivers) for the control of various services. Such idea seemed to be superior persuading Google to terminate the on-line searching of GPS blockers, according to Bob Brewin, the lead developer of nextgov.com, this idea worked at least for some time.
On April, 7 a main designer, who had been writing about the GNSS problems for many years, was amazed with the number of links in his blog, which Google showed on request "GPS jammer" (GPS jamming signal). Brewin immediately got into touch with the guys from Google. They informed that "The GPS-jammers’ references are in contrast to the company policy, which bans advertising of hacking and some related technology", and that they will remove the problem. Indeed, the search on request "GPS jammer" have no effect in the evening. But on request "GPS jammer" with note "Shopping" Google found 3 ad links on the GPS-jammers’ sites.
And there was a great quantity of pages about such blockers in other search engines. In Feb, during the conference British expert David Last said how he reached 185,000 references on that request. The amount of GPS-disablers’ sites increased by 50% just in a month. The abridgement of search of the exact phrase "gps jammer" by Google will take away approximately 106000 links – but it is a small relief.

GPS/GLONASS system

The cars, made in Russia are intended to be equipped with the double-system receivers GLONASS/GPS on the conveyor – informed the executive minister of the “GLONASS / GNSS – Forum” firm, Vladimir Klimov, giving an interview the Izvestia newspaper. According to his sayings, within the ERA GLONASS program, each car will be fixed with the gadget, "which if it is essential in case of accident, it will mail a alarm or a voice message in the center of traffic.
"Hence, the accidents and their exact locations would be registered, and the subsequent problems with traffic, too. And, of course, this information will help to respond on the situation, providing the assistance," –said Klimov.
Saying about the program ERA GLONASS, he noted that "there will start the comparable system which is founded on GPS / Galileo in Europe in 2012”. "Here it is also spoken about a double-system receiver - GLONASS / GPS. It is planned that the cars which are about to be sold in Russia, that they are equipped with these devices on the assembly belt “-said he.
Replying to the question about the competition of the GPS from America and the national system GLONASS, Vladimir Klimov said: "SBS had systematically been developing about 20 years, but the Russian system - only 8 years." "But at the hardware level we are already closing to the GPS – about the sizes of receivers, the power and the color characteristics. And soon the Western associations will do the dual-standart equipment GLONASS / GPS," – concluded he.

The Russian company “Rosnano” will invest 550 million rubles in the production of microsystems in St. Petersburg

The Russian plant of manufacturing of microsystems and detectors will be built to 2012. These detectors will be used in the navigational receivers GLONASS / GPS, in the cell phones and in the high-frequency digital broadcasting equipment. The Roslano corporation is going to invest in the manufacturing 550 million rubles, so the general budget of the project is estimated in1.24 billion rubles. "The output of project on the planned indicators should appear in 2015” –said the corp..
It is planned that the main part of revenue of project will be got from the sales of energy-efficient and affordable systems, which have a big number of the operating temperatures. And these temperatures are used for regulating the stress-strain distribution of the building structures. The security systems of gas-processing is going to have a high percentage of sales. Besides, the project firm will carry out the manufacturing of microsystems which is the strong to the aggressive environmental conditions.
The initiator and co-investor of the project is the St. Petersburg company "Avangard" and it plans to provide "the intellectual possession in the patents, the know-hows and in the sets of design and technological documentation”. The sponsors realize to attract the professionals from lots of Russian scientific centers, first of all - from the Kotelnikov’s Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, so they will work on the new generation of micros.
According to the experts, the world market’s volume of sensors and microchips was about $ 51 billion in 2008. According to expectations if the growth rate is about 5 % per year, the volume will be about $ 67 billion in 2018.

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The sale of Apple iPad tablet began in the USA

 

The marketing of Apple iPad began on April, 3 in the United States of America. The instrument is marketed at the company shops, as well as in the biggest electronics shopping centers “Best Buy”.
Ipads, which are now easy of access in the market, have no access to the 3G and GPS networks. Nevertheless, a great number of people had gathered at the Apple stores and “Best Buy” before the opening. Many of them got in line in front of the flagship New York Apple stores on Tuesday.
The enrollment of IPad pre-orders began in the United States on March, 12. According to the analysts, the customers had already ordered the hundreds and thousands of the iPads, although no one had not even held them in their hands. The iPad charge is 499 $ for the 16-gigabyte model, 599 $ for the 32-gigabyte and 699 dollars for the 64-gigabyte model.
Soon before the starting of the sales more than 2300 IPad applications appeared in the Apple Store. On the average their cost is larger than the iPod touch and iPhone apps are. However, the applications for iPod also work on the iPad, there are more than 150 thousands of these applications in the shop.
The IPad tablet was presented by the Apple headman, Steve Jobs, on January, 27 in 2010. The iPad has a multisensory screen with resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels and a diagonal in 9.7 inch. The iPad operates under a mobile operating system iPhone OS.
In EU and other countries, the sales are going to start in the last days of April. At the same time the IPad 3G-version will come in the American store.

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